The moral status of children : essays on the rights of the child / by Michael Freeman
- Bib ID:
- 146626
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Freeman, Michael D. A
- Description:
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- The Hague, The Netherlands : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers ; Cambridge, MA : Sold and distributed in the USA and Canada by Kluwer Law International, c1997
- xiii, 404 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9041103775 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. The Moral Status of Children
- Ch. 2. Taking Children's Rights More Seriously
- Ch. 3. Laws, Conventions and Rights
- Ch. 4. Beyond Conventions-Towards Empowerment
- Ch. 5. The Limits of Children's Rights
- Ch. 6. English Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Ch. 7. Children's Rights and Cultural Pluralism
- Ch. 8. Contact With Absent Parents: An Emergent Child Right
- Ch. 9. Do Children Have the Right Not to Be Born?
- Ch. 10. The Rights of the Artificially Procreated Child
- Ch. 11. Can Children Divorce Their Parents?
- Ch. 12. The James Bulger Tragedy: Childish Innocence and the Construction of Guilt
- Ch. 13. Cleveland, Butler-Sloss and Beyond: How Are We to React to the Sexual Abuse of Children?
- Ch. 14. In the Child's Best Interests? Reading the Children Act Critically
- Ch. 15. Removing Rights from Adolescents
- Ch. 16. Sterilizing the Mentally Handicapped
- Ch. 17. Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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